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> If you lack confidence and need frameworks, abstractions, and other bullshit to write a couple lines of code you will be a weaker programmer So you like to
by yeukhon 9y ago
> If you lack confidence and need frameworks, abstractions, and other bullshit to write a couple lines of code you will be a weaker programmer
So you like to reinvent everything? Do you reinvent HTML & CSS because they are FRAMEWORKS, one of the foundational frameworks of today's web.
If your job only ask you to fix a bug, there here is how to make yourself valuable AND technically challenging:
* go through the bugs and analyze if you can extract any correlations
* propose better process with other fellow engineers and product owners
* implement changes
For example, someone might be duplicating some code to write tests, how about you write a test harness or adopt some open-source harness? How about work with your fellow engineers to begin start collecting some metrics.
Otherwise, time to look for a new opportunity. The absolute worst kind of programmers are the ones who don't don't take care of their health.
- austincheney 9y agoPerhaps if you wrote software in addition to doing that which is strictly assigned to you your question would answer itself. This isn't rocket science.
- yeukhon 9y agoBut there is creativity. You don't have to go an extra mile though, but you can. My response is to this: > If you aren't independently finding new problems to solve then you will be a weaker programmer than somebody who is constantly stepping up their game.